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Jacob Harris

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Jer Thorp: Living in Data (2021, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

In the fall of 2009, the data artist Jer Thorp wrote a pair of algorithms …

A nice book about what it means to live in a data-centric world that draws on various examples of the author's own work and other related topics (disclaimer: I am mentioned briefly in the book about a piece I wrote about how basic data modeling practices reduce the ambiguities of reality)

commented on The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)

N. K. Jemisin: The City We Became (Hardcover, 2020, Orbit)

In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember …

The pettiest of quibbles: one of the characters at one point mentions seeing Orion's belt in the sky, but it's set in the summer and you only see Orion in the winter in the Northern Hemisphere and I hate myself for knowing this and pointing it out.